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Deichdúan na h-eisséirge
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A group of ten Middle Irish poems on the week before Judgment Day, which is found as an addition at the end of Saltair na rann.
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MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
rubric: Deichduán na h-eisseirge in so incl. Ba cóir do cach crístaide, Is ind laithiu tánaissi, Sin tres laithiu lainderda, Cóiced laithe lígaide, Sessed lathi lórdata, Dia sathairnn na sechtmaine, Sin chethramad líthlaithiu, I llaithiu na lánchaingen, I ndomnuch na comdála, I llaithiu ind lúain lainnerda ‘Ten songs of the Resurrection’, further poems added to Saltair na rann.
in section: f. 39v(66)b–
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
rubric: Deichduán na h-eisseirge in so
ff. 39v(66)b–40v(68)b
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[ed.] [tr.] Greene, David [ed. and tr.], Saltair na rann, Online: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2007–. URL: <https://www.dias.ie/celt/celt-publications-2/celt-saltair-na-rann/>.
[ed.] [tr.] Heist, William W., The fifteen signs before Doomsday, East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State College Press, 1952.
Contents: Preface -- Saltair na rann [edition and translation of verses CLIII-CLXII] -- I. The legend -- II. Previous study of the legend -- III. The sources proposed by Nölle and Grau -- IV. The chief early groups -- V. The later development -- VI. Conclusions -- Appendix A. Versions of the Fifteen Signs Annotated -- Appendix B. Versions not used in this study -- Bibliography -- Index.
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[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], Saltair na rann: a collection of early Middle Irish poems, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 1.3, Oxford: Clarendon, 1883.
